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Recent research indicates that hurricanes approaching the U.S. are more likely to intensify during less active Atlantic periods
Low-cost spectroscopy technique could allow detection of microscopic amounts of chemicals for applications in security, law enforcement, and research
The secret lies in a chemical called Piperlongumine
Research team hopes to increase the harvest index from 45 to 60 percent
Efforts to educate diners, repurpose leftovers cancel each other out, study finds
By mimicking how dogs get their whiffs, researchers have demonstrated that “active sniffing” can improve by more than 10 times the performance of current technologies that rely on continuous suction to detect trace amounts of explosives and other contraband
In addition to a fully detailed how-to video that the group produced for the public, the results of the work developing this do-it-yourself, handheld acoustic tractor beam will appear this week as an open access paper
"To conserve some of these rarer species in an increasingly urban planet is going to require more knowledge of how birds disperse," researcher said
Implications also for understanding Zika virus-caused microencephaly
A new study suggests that over a third of new scientific reports are published in languages other than English, which can result in these findings being overlooked
Listeriosis is 20 times more common in pregnant women than in non-pregnant adults and occurs more frequently in those with lowered immunity, such as cancer and transplant patients, newborns, and the elderly
